Crime at Bedtime

The murder of Julie Ward in Kenya's Maasai Mara in 1988 became one of the most notorious cover-ups in modern criminal history. Julie was a 28-year-old British wildlife photographer, a week from flying home, when she vanished on safari. Her father flew out to find her, and discovered her remains himself, cut and burned, evidence of murder that Kenyan authorities tried to pass off as an animal attack to protect the tourism industry. What followed was one father's decades-long, multi-million-pound battle against two governments to force the world to admit his daughter had been killed. Three men were tried; none was ever convicted. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we tell the full story: the safari, the flawed investigation, the altered autopsy, the trials that collapsed, the alleged political conspiracy, and the extraordinary devotion of a father who refused to let his daughter's murder be denied. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of a father in the Mara.
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The murder of Hae Min Lee and the conviction of Adnan Syed became a global phenomenon through the Serial podcast. In 1999, the 18-year-old Baltimore student was strangled and buried in Leakin Park; her ex-boyfriend was convicted on the testimony of a witness named Jay Wilds and disputed cell phone evidence. We lay out the full case for his guilt and the full case for his innocence, the vacated and reinstated conviction, his 2025 release, and the girl too often forgotten at the centre of it. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the girl who was forgotten.
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The Ilkley Moor alien case is one of Britain's most famous UFO photographs. In December 1987, a retired police officer photographed a small green figure on a Yorkshire moor, then found his compass reversed and an hour of time missing. Experts examined the photo and could not prove it a fake. We lay out the evidence, the sceptics' case, and why, nearly 40 years on, no one can explain it. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the figure by the quarry.
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The Claremont serial killings are the most infamous murders in Western Australian history. Between 1996 and 1997, three young women, Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer, and Ciara Glennon, vanished after nights out in Perth's Claremont nightlife district. It took the largest investigation in the state's history, and a scrap of DNA under a fingernail, to convict Telstra technician Bradley Edwards two decades later. We tell the full story, the forensic breakthrough, and why one victim's killer was never convicted. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the fibre and the fingernail.
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The murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in December 1996 is one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in Irish history, and one of the strangest legal sagas in modern Europe. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a 39-year-old French film producer who had bought an isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, near the village of Schull, as a private retreat. Two days before Christmas, she was found beaten to death near the gate of that cottage, in her nightclothes, on a lonely Irish hillside. The investigation that followed became infamous, both for what went wrong in its earliest hours and for the man it fixed upon: an English journalist named Ian Bailey, who was arrested twice, never charged in Ireland, and always maintained his innocence. And there the case entered genuinely extraordinary territory, because a single murder came to be answered by two countries in two opposite ways. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we tell the full story of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier: the killing on the West Cork hillside, the flawed investigation, the chief suspect who was never convicted in Ireland but was tried and found guilty in France in a court he never attended, the three separate Irish refusals to extradite him, and a mystery that his death has now sealed, perhaps forever. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of two days before Christmas.
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